US 10,834,193 B2 · Scheduled retrieval of shared content

Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products for scheduling retrieval of shared content. Certain embodiments commence upon storing shared content at a collaboration system that is connected to a plurality of user devices by a network. After gathering one or more environmental conditions that correspond to at least one of the plurality of user devices, a time or a plurality of times is predicted, the predicted time or times corresponding to when conditions such as a user's device location or network strength conditions or other environmental conditions that affect the user devices might change. Based on the predicted times, a retrieval schedule is defined. The retrieval schedule includes instructions for initiating downloading of portions of the shared content from the collaboration system to the user device. Initiation of the start of downloading may be calculated to cause just-in-time downloading that completes just before the time of a predicted change in conditions.

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Dependent claims

A method for scheduling retrieval of shared content, the method comprising:

storing the shared content at a collaboration system that is connected to a plurality of user devices by a network;
gathering one or more environmental conditions that correspond to at least one of the user devices that is configured to store at least a portion of the shared content;
predicting a time corresponding to when at least one of the one or more environmental conditions that correspond to the at least one of the user devices is predicted to change to an offline condition;
scheduling a retrieval of the portion of the shared content from the collaboration system to the at least one of the user devices, the scheduling being based at least in part on the time when at least one of the one or more environmental conditions for the at least one of the user devices is predicted to change to the offline condition;
and
retrieving the portion of the shared content to the at least one of the user devices in accordance with the scheduling that is based upon the prediction of the offline condition.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when stored in memory and executed by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform a set of acts for scheduling retrieval of shared content, the set of acts comprising:

storing the shared content at a collaboration system that is connected to a plurality of user devices by a network;
gathering one or more environmental conditions that correspond to at least one of the user devices that is configured to store at least a portion of the shared content;
predicting a time corresponding to when at least one of the one or more environmental conditions that correspond to the at least one of the user devices is predicted to change to an offline condition;
scheduling a retrieval of the portion of the shared content from the collaboration system to the at least one of the user devices, the scheduling being based at least in part on the time when at least one of the one or more environmental conditions for the at least one of the user devices is predicted to change to the offline condition;
and
retrieving the portion of the shared content to the at least one of the user devices in accordance with the scheduling that is based upon the prediction of the offline condition.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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